Revelation Space Books in Order

This first volume of The Revelation Space Collection gathers early stories from that universe in internal chronological order, including classics like Great Wall of Mars, Galactic North, and Diamond Dogs. It is ideal if you want to trace the setting's history from its beginnings.

On the airless world Michaelmas, Miguel de Ruyter has kept a hidden community safe from the Inhibitors for decades by erasing any sign of their existence. When a lone ship strays too close and a survivor named Glass upends his past, Miguel is dragged into a last desperate mission against the machines.

Galactic North gathers most of the shorter fiction set in the Revelation Space universe, from early Conjoiner wars to far future outposts. Expect first contact missions, haunted starships, and glimpses of how seemingly minor choices echo across millennia of human history.

On the ocean planet Turquoise, researcher Naqi still mourns the sister she lost to the alien Pattern Jugglers. When a rare starship arrives with new scientists who seem too secretive, Naqi uncovers a plan that could poison both the Jugglers and her home.

Scattered human survivors flee the Inhibitors to harsh worlds where strange beliefs take root. On the icy moon Hela, pilgrims chase a wandering cathedral in search of a prophecy, while elsewhere old allies struggle to keep one last refuge hidden from the machines.

The Inhibitors, ancient machine beings that prune intelligent life, have noticed humanity at last. Conjoiner renegade Clavain races rival factions to recover hidden super weapons and evacuate a vulnerable colony world before the machines turn its sun into an instrument of extinction.

An obsessed aristocrat recruits a small team to climb an alien tower on a dead world, each level presenting a deadlier mathematical puzzle. With every failure the structure amputates and replaces more of their bodies, forcing them to choose how much humanity to sacrifice.

Security specialist Tanner Mirabel comes to the once glittering Chasm City to avenge a murder, only to find a metropolis rotted by a nanotech plague. As he hunts his target through baroque slums and orbital habitats, his own identity starts to unravel.

In a far future where starships crawl between systems at near light speed, archaeologist Dan Sylveste hunts the truth behind a vanished alien race. A plague stricken warship and a hired killer need him for their own reasons, drawing them toward a buried machine threat.